@Sentinel Beach

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Uuh, I hit the level cap 55. Of course right after that I went and upgraded all my favorite weapons, bows and shield to the same max level. Now we're talking!

It's just a shame that so many of the pretty rare legendary shields have that "sleep on block" ability attached to them. I'd be okay with it, but visually that blue fog effect around the shield when using it is just super ugly, I really dislike how it is presented like that. Boo! But hey. Luckily I still had something really cool in storage which I put into use now after growing tired of my pretty basic round shield. From way back, Green Mountains I think, I have this square-shaped shield with gold colours and a cool-looking red lion face painted on it. There's also a nice crack on the top side of it, which gives it a lot of character. "Bleed on block", not even bad.

I'm almost done with the Curse of the Pharaohs. The map is completely studied and opened, every place discovered. Side quests are practically all done, and the main quest is heading towards the finish line. Really interested to see what the last one of "those places" looks like.

Ian, you started my Sunday morning with a smile with this one. Loved the rhytm of both speech and footage and just the chill vibes of everything. Also that "fingers down my spine" thing made me laugh out loud. :) A perfect thing to always bring back.

@lotias I watch every race (and almost every qualification) with my dad, that's been our tradition for many years.

I think the US GP is one of my favorites in Austin, there's often an exciting race. Canada's also cool. Pretty interested to see what's France like now. It's not Magny-Cours, which I remember, but Circuit Paul Ricard, which I've never seen before.

The halo looks a bit silly, but I don't mind it too much. I just find it baffling that it doesn't bother the drivers' view that the halo connects to the car right in center and in front of their eyes. I guess you don't just notice it while driving, then.

I'm also happy that during the past year or two F1 has finally activated in Facebook etc. Lots of cool stuff often.

For all the F1 fans here. The new season is just a week away, so let's check out the teams, drivers and the calendar for 2018.

The teams and the drivers are:

Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport

Lewis Hamilton (GBR)

Valtteri Bottas (FIN)

Scuderia Ferrari

Sebastian Vettel (GER)

Kimi Räikkönen (FIN)

Aston Martin Red Bull Racing

Daniel Ricciardo (AUS)

Max Verstappen (NED)

Sahara Force India F1 Team

Sergio Peréz (MEX)

Esteban Ocon (FRA)

Williams Martini Racing

Lance Stroll (CAN)

Sergey Sirotkin (RUS)

Renault Sport Formula One Team

Carlos Sainz Jr. (ESP)

Nico Hülkenberg (GER)

Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda

Pierre Gasly (FRA)

Brendon Hartley (NZL)

Haas F1 Team

Romain Grosjean (FRA)

Kevin Magnussen (DEN)

McLaren F1 Team

Fernando Alonso (ESP)

Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL)

Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team

Marcus Ericsson (SWE)

Charles Leclerc (MON)

The calendar and its 21 Grands Prix are the following:

Australia, 25 March

Bahrain, 8 April

China, 15 April

Azerbaijan, 29 April

Spain, 13 May

Monaco, 27 May

Canada, 10 June

France, 24 June

Austria, 1 July

United Kingdom, 8 July

Germany, 22 July

Hungary, 29 July

Belgium, 26 August

Italy, 2 September

Singapore, 16 September

Russia, 30 September

Japan, 7 October

United States, 21 October

Mexico, 28 October

Brazil, 11 November

United Arab Emirates, 25 November

Hamilton is the defending drivers' champion and Mercedes the defending constructors' champion, the latter for the fourth year in a row. Can Ferrari and Red Bull catch Mercedes this year, continues to be the question.

The new cockpit protection device - the "halo" - will be the most visible change in the cars this season.

And as a Finn, my one wish for the season will be to see Kimi on the highest podium one more time. This will most likely be the fan favorite's final season in F1. Come on, Kimi!

What a great surprise with the new episode! A special guest, by all means. Ben Hanson fit extremely well in, the panel and their interactions felt natural through the whole show. Ben was really likable and down-to-earth kind of guy, good energies.

I really recommend this second DLC for all the fans of Origins. The Hidden Ones was a (good) snack compared to this one. This thing's huge in comparison! So many quests, and they're mostly very good and interesting. Especially the main quests work really well together with the story around this one MacGuffin, but the side quests, too, are fun to do to pace out the playing. They're shorter and serve a different purpose. But the whole package of the DLC is just really neatly put together.

The boss fights are this time actually pretty tough. These guys aren't playing around. The main game was pretty easy from beginning to the end, and there's still this sense of power fantasy when Bayek murders garrisons of soldiers, but these boss fights really make you concentrate. Long HP bars and attacks that chop you up really quickly if you get hit. Better get some XP every now and then and level up Bayek and his weapon arsenal. Luckily there are lots of those quests everywhere.

Damn, I like this game. I've noticed that I wonder every so often that maybe Origins should've actually been my GOTY. (Now it was #2 behind HZD.)

I agree that there was a loophole in the system: you shouldn't be able to nominate a game if you're not there yourself. Now Brad's game welcomed open-armed all the votes to come in, while Brad himself wasn't there reciprocally to hand over his votes to three other games. Maybe they'll notice this, too, for the future sessions.

This fifth HoG session was my favourite so far. It was just somehow super entertaining, I had so many laughs, there was lots of excitement with four or five top candidates having a good shot of making it. Really good show, so thank you Allies!

I was rooting for Witcher 3, but nope. Not this time. At least RE4 made it in! Really happy to see so much love for that game among the group. And here on the forum people didn't vote for it even into the Top100 list we made. You maniacs, it's one of the Greats!

@el-shmiablo In Unity and Syndicate it was really minimal (can't remember Rogue's that side), things didn't really move at all. And again in Origins there were maybe four or five short sidesteps into the current day, but now it at least felt like something could be starting with this one. One familiar face even made their return.

I liked all that stuff too, it gave a nice scifi touch to everything as well as this overarching roof for everything.